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1977ref. 163627Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1977. Two vintage photographs a portrait photograph of Jan-Michael Vincent and a studio still photograph of George Peppard from the 1977 film. Based on the 1969 novel by Roger Zelazny. Four survivors of World War III attempt to drive across the wasteland that is now America in search for survivors. Shot on location in Arizona and California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1970ref. 161698N.p.: Rond Inc 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1970 film with a provenance stamp on the verso and two labels obscuring a previous provenance stamp. An innocent girl has her sexual awakening over a wild weekend. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Rond, Inc unknown books
1943ref. 164451Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1943. Two vintage photographs from the 1943 film including one studio still photograph showing actors Lon Chaney Jr. and Ramsay Ames and one reference photograph showing Chaney Jr. alone. One with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. The first film in Universal's "Inner Sanctum" series. Universal struck a deal with publishers Simon and Schuster in 1943 obtaining screen rights to their "Inner Sanctum" radio series with Chaney Jr. slated to star. "Calling Dr. Death" would set the standard for the series including the classic introductory sequence of a fortune teller who warns the audience of impending albeit cinematic doom and the recurrent "stream of consciousness" voiceover. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly faded. Weaver Universal Horrors. Universal Pictures unknown books
1968ref. 163595Universal City: Universal Pictures 1968. Vintage bound production budget and two cost reports for the 1969 Western film. This grouping of documentation does NOT include the film's script. Based on the 1968 novel by Lewis B. Patten. An old-fashioned lawman is fired after killing a man in self-defense but refuses to resign resulting in violence on both sides. Actor Richard Widmark was dissatisfied with the film's original director Robert Totten and arranged to have him replaced by Don Siegel. Each director felt that the film did not represent his creative vision and the resultant dispute over the directorial credit led the Directors Guild of America to create the pseudonym Alan Smithee. Set in the fictional Cottonwood Springs shot on location in California and Arizona. Tall green Universal Pictures leatherette wrappers dated June 26 1968 noted as production No. 2022 with credits for Totten actors Richard Widmark and Lena Horne and producer Richard Lyons. Approximately 50 leaves. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver screw brads. Pitts 1015. Universal Pictures unknown books
ref. 163863Los Angeles: Gracie Films 1994. Revised Shooting Draft script for the 1996 film. Single annotation in manuscript pencil on the rear wrapper verso. Wes Anderson's feature film directorial debut cowritten with actor Owen Wilson about three friends who plan a heist in the southwestern suburbs. Based on Anderson's 1992 short film of the same title whose success at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival persuaded filmmaker James L. Brooks to finance a full-length version of the film. Shot on location in Dallas Fort Worth and Hillsboro Texas and at the Camarillo State Mental Hospital in Camarillo California. White generic Gracie Films wrappers. Title page present dated September 20 1994 noted as Shooting Draft and credits for Anderson and Wilson. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Gracie Films unknown books
1944ref. 164516Universal City: Universal Studios 1944. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1944 film. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. In the early years of the Gold Rush a senator's daughter takes a wagon train west in order to follow her boyfriend a lieutenant in the US cavalry. One of the most expensive productions in Universal's history and the only Technicolor film in which Deanna Durbin appeared. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. Shot on location in Utah and California. 10 x 8 inches. Faint scratches on the recto else Near Fine. Universal Studios unknown books
1941ref. 164506Universal City: Universal Studios 1941. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1941 film showing actress Irene Dunne in a lace-embellished dress and net fascinator. Printed mimeo snipe and provenance stamp on the verso. A small-town singer falls in love with a city playboy on a train to New York only for him to ignore her as soon as the train pulls into the station. Days later after gaining a job as a nightclub singer she is propositioned by the playboy's brother. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Studios unknown books
1939ref. 164504Universal City: Universal Pictures 1939. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1939 film showing actors Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne. Printed mimeo snipe provenance stamps and date stamp on the verso. A waitress falls in love with a man she meets at the restaurant where she works unaware that he is a famous and wealthy concert pianist. Boyer and Dunne previously costarred in the 1939 film "Love Affair." From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good. Universal Pictures unknown books
1945ref. 164495Universal City: Universal Pictures 1945. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1945 film showing actor Andy Devine posing humorously in a tunic and sandals. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A young woman becomes queen of the kingdom of Khemis after her father is killed in a slave revolt but soon thereafter becomes captured and enslaved. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1945ref. 164487Universal City: Universal Studios 1945. Five vintage publicity photographs from the 1945 film all showing actress Yvonne De Carlo. Two with printed mimeo snipes and provenance stamps on the verso. Loosely based on the life of famed dancer and courtesan Lola Montez. De Carlo's breakthrough role about an exotic dancer who becomes a spy during the American Civil War. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. 8 x 10 inches. Generally Very Good plus. Zimmerman p. 19. Universal Studios unknown books
1967ref. 164292N.p.: N.p. 1967. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1967 Yugoslavian film all showing actress Eva Ras. Two with a printed French mimeo snipes affixed to the verso and three with provenance stamps and labels on same. A young switchboard operator begins a relationship with a serious beau but finds herself subject to a colleague's advances when her boyfriend is out of town on business. Told in non-chronological order with imaginative digressions and frequent interruptions creating a critique of communist society and censorship. The second feature film of Du an Makavejev the most celebrated Yugoslavian director of the 1960s. Two photographs 9.5 x 7.25 inches two photographs 5 x 7 inches. Generally Very Good plus. Criterion Eclipse 18. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 164325N.p.: Miracle Films 1969. Two vintage photographs from the UK release of the 1969 Italian-French anthology film both showing scenes from Bernardo Bertolucci's segment "Agonia." From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Largely dealing with themes of religion and spirituality the film featured segments written and directed by five Italian directors and one French director. Bertolucci's segment starred members of The Living Theatre including noted actor and director Julian Beck. Distributed by the notoriously versatile Miracle Films a significant force in both international cinema and American pornography in the late 1960s and 1970s. 10 x 8 inches. One Very Good plus one Very Good both slightly curled. Miracle Films unknown books
1975ref. 164282London: Cinegate 1975. Four vintage studio still photographs from the UK release of the 1952 Japanese film. Provenance stamps and layout annotations on the versos. Based on Saikaku Ihara's 1686 collection of short stories about a noblewoman who falls into ruin as a result of her affair with a lowly page. Among director Kenji Mizoguchi's finest films an exploration of class gender and the search for dignity in seventeenth-century Japan. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. Criterion Collection 664. Ebert IV. Rosenbaum 1000. Cinegate unknown books
1923ref. 164284Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1923. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1923 silent film showing director actress Pola Negri and George Fitzmaurice between takes together consulting a copy of Robert Hichens' source novel. Mimeo snipe provenance stamp and Famous Players-Lasky stamp on the verso. Based on Paramount's 1915 film of the same name which was based in turn on Hichens' 1909 novel about the titular seductress and the men who fall into her love trap. Early noir antecedent. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with a two-inch flaw in the finish affecting the bottom left corner. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1970ref. 164320N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1970 film showing director Hal Ashby with actor Beau Bridges and crew members during filming on location in New York. Ashby's directorial debut based on the 1966 novel by Kristin Hunter about a naive wealthy white man who buys an inner-city tenement in Park Slope Brooklyn intending to evict the low-income Black tenants and turn the building into a luxury home for himself. He soon grows fond of the residents even beginning a relationship with one of the women living in the building and decides to remain as the landlord. Set in Park Slope Brooklyn and shot on location in Brooklyn and Manhattan. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request. N.p. unknown books
1945ref. 164423N.p.: N.p. 1945. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1945 film showing actor John Carradine as Count Dracula. The last entry in Universal's famed "monsters" canon a direct sequel to 1944's "House of Frankenstein" which appropriately hosted Universal's "big three" monsters all in Dracula's house including the Prince of Darkness himself Carradine the Wolf Man Chaney Jr. and Frankenstein Glenn Strange along with the requisite mad scientist Onslow Stevens and hunchbacked assistant Jane Adams. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown books
1940ref. 164317N.p.: N.p. 1940. Vintage reference photograph from the 1940 film showing director Anatole Litvak and a camera crew setting up a scene with actors Bette Davis and Charles Boyer. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Based on the 1938 novel by Rachel Field about a governess' doomed romance with a French nobleman. Nominated for three Academy Awards. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1957ref. 164297N.p.: N.p. 1957. Two vintage reference photographs of actress Joanne Woodward on the set of the 1957 film-one showing Woodward with Lee J. Cobb the other showing Woodward with David Wayne. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. Based on the case of Chris Costner Sizemore a woman believed to have dissociative identity disorder then called multiple personality disorder. Woodward received the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1972ref. 164302N.p.: N.p. 1972. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1972 German film. Three with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. An exploration of 1950s Hollywood melodramas through the lens of 1970s Germany about the destructive skewed power dynamics between a twice-divorced fashion designer her live-in maid and her new lover. Set in Bremen shot on location in Worpswede Germany. Three photographs 5 x 7.5 inches one photograph 4.5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus. Arrow 12. Criterion Collection 740. N.p. unknown books
1941ref. 164378Universal City: Universal Pictures 1941. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1941 film showing actor Mischa Auer. Date stamp photographer's stamp and provenance stamp on the verso. In 1841 New Orleans a young woman seeks the fortune of a wealthy banker through marriage while romancing a handsome but poor sailor. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. 8 x 10 inches. Slightly wavy else about Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1944ref. 164361Universal City: Universal Pictures 1944. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1944 film showing actress Louise Allbritton behind a camera. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A teenage orphan from New England receives an inheritance for education but instead uses it to travel to New York to pursue the object of her obsession an Army surgeon. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1947ref. 164413Universal City: Universal Pictures 1947. Two vintage publicity photographs from the 1947 film both showing actor Nigel Bruce. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso of one. Loosely based on the 1926 novel "His Majesty the King" by Cosmo Hamilton. King Charles II lives in exile in the Netherlands after being deposed by Oliver Cromwell and his supporters. There Charles falls in love with a farm girl while hiding from Cromwell's assassins. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Universal Pictures unknown books
1969ref. 164319N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 film showing a nude Mimsy Farmer. Stamp of photographer Michel Ciment on the verso. A German college graduate and an American expatriate hitchhike from Paris to Ibiza where the bliss of island life quickly gives way to heroin addiction and hedonism. Soundtrack by Pink Floyd. Set and shot on location in Paris and Ibiza. 7.25 x 5 inches. Near Fine. BFI 1040. N.p. unknown books
1978ref. 164326N.p.: N.p. 1978. Vintage borderless oversize color reference photograph from the 1978 French sexploitation film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. A vice squad determines to take down a drug and prostitution ring. Director Jacques Scandelari helmed a number of gay pornographic films under the pseudonym Marvin Merkins the most notable being the 1978 feature "New York City Inferno." 12 x 9.5 inches. Very Good. Bier 201. N.p. unknown books
1943ref. 164585Universal City: Universal Pictures 1943. Vintage reference photograph from the 1943 film showing actors Randolph Scott Ella Raines and James Brown walking with linked arms on the set. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with a provenance stamp. A dramatization of the experiences of the crew of a Canadian naval vessel during World War II focusing in particular on the ship's captain who lost his previous ship and many men to a German torpedo. The film debut of actress Ella Raines who was discovered and signed virtually on sight by producer Howard Hawks during a theatre production at the University of Washington. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
